Chapter 83: Extreme Heat 24
“Oh no, I almost hurt a teammate!”
Seeing Lu Qingyuan return, Chu Yian felt a little more confident. “Teacher Lu, there are four people in total. Two have already been knocked down by me, and the other two are still in the house.”
“I know. Step back and turn on the light.”
Teacher Lu was a man of few words but fierce actions. His tall, 1.9-meter frame simply standing in the middle of the basement, without doing anything yet, put immense pressure on the two men opposite him.
Chu Yian turned on the light and saw the remaining two men huddled in a corner.
When they saw the basement, they were surprised by the complete living facilities inside. Especially when they saw the boxes of mineral water piled against the wall, their eyes could barely move away.
However, the water was tempting, and the two people lying on the ground were also terrifying.
Blood was everywhere. The man named Shuanzi and their boss were both disfigured by heavy objects. It made one wonder what kind of thing this little girl used to hit them?
Thor’s Hammer?
“Little sister, we were forced into this.”
The agent, Zhang Hui, shifted his gaze from Lu Qingyuan to Chu Yian. “The weather is hot and dry, and the streets are full of people dying from heat and thirst in the city. If I don’t find water to drink soon, I’ll die too.
Considering we’ve met before, I picked this house for you, and I even gave you a ride. Please spare me this time!”
The agent, indeed, knew how to bend and stretch.
Chu Yian looked at him expressionlessly. He was the one who brought people here, and when she was alone earlier, he hadn’t considered whether these people would take her life.
Chu Yian glanced at Lu Qingyuan. “I don’t think they should be spared.”
“I know.”
Lu Qingyuan blocked their escape route. He had never intended to let them go.
“Damn it, you motherf—”
Seeing that pleading was useless, the agent Zhang Hui instantly changed his expression and cursed loudly, “Come on, I’m not afraid of you. It’s just death either way, I’ll fight you to the end!”
Bang—!
Lu Qingyuan didn’t waste words with him and punched him.
Not only was he a head taller than the two men, but he was also lean in clothes and muscular without them. His soaked clothes clung to his skin, revealing smooth yet restrained muscle lines, standing like a mountain before the two men.
Lu Qingyuan knocked down the agent Zhang Hui with two or three punches.
The other man tried to run, but Lu Qingyuan grabbed him by the collar and pulled him down.
The man fell backward, his head hitting the low concrete wall. His head started bleeding, and he fell down, unable to get back up.
Chu Yian went to check and found that the man’s pupils were dilated.
Death, caught off guard.
There were four people when they arrived, and now only he was left. Zhang Hui, who had just claimed he wasn’t afraid, watched his three companions fall, his legs trembling, and his crotch became wet.
“You guys are breaking the law! I, I…”
Lu Qingyuan walked over, reached out and grabbed his neck. A crunching sound of dislocated bones was heard, and Zhang Hui stopped breathing.
Lu Qingyuan then gave each of them an additional blow.
His actions were clean and decisive, without the slightest hint of fear in his eyes.
Chu Yian looked at him in shock, her gaze meeting his cold, deep eyes. “What’s wrong?”
“N-nothing.”
Chu Yian said nothing was wrong, but she unconsciously touched her own neck.
Honestly, Teacher Lu was… a bit scary now.
With his strength, Chu Yian felt that if Lu Qingyuan wanted to snap her neck, it might be easier than snapping a frozen popsicle.
“Don’t just stand there, come and help me carry them out to dispose of them.”
Lu Qingyuan instructed.
Disposing of these four people didn’t mean everything was fine. There were even fewer pedestrians on the road today, but not none. After dealing with these four, the basement still needed to be re-camouflaged.
Disposing of bodies was much simpler now than before; just throw them on the main road. There were already so many bodies on this road, a few more wouldn’t be a problem at all.
After the bodies were cleared out, the two restored the clutter to its original state.
As Lu Qingyuan was about to take her to hide again, Chu Yian pulled out a grenade she had just extracted from her treasure box from her pocket. “Teacher Lu, I have one of these!”
A grenade!
Lu Qingyuan hadn’t expected her to suddenly pull out something like this. “Where did you get that?”
“That… I have my ways.”
Chu Yian played coy. “Do we now have enough firepower to scorn all beings and guard the peace of the basement?”
“…No.”
Lu Qingyuan took the grenade and looked at the house. “There should still be a way.”
Game Day Eighteen, 7 AM.
The roads outside were already empty because the current temperature was 54 degrees Celsius, and it was predicted to possibly break the 60-degree mark today.
The ground was like a giant oven. Wild grass was withered, and trees were parched. At this temperature, not only humans couldn’t survive, but animals and plants also couldn’t.
Lu Qingyuan was helping her move everything from the first and second floors into the basement, and then he surveyed the house several more times.
They were going to blow up this house.
More precisely, to make this house no longer attract others, they needed to collapse the entrance to the house.
The two pushed the only car in the yard nearby, to scrap this car that had been visited multiple times but was out of gas. Besides that, they also moved several bodies back from outside and placed them around.
Everything was ready. Lu Qingyuan opened the basement door, motioning for Chu Yian to go down first. Then, he pulled the pin on the grenade and threw it at the calculated position.
Bang—!
The explosion upstairs was deafening and earth-shattering. A hand grabbed Chu Yian, who was swaying on the stairs, and another arm wrapped around her head, covering her ears with his arm and palm.
Besides her, that must be Teacher Lu’s hand!
Chu Yian was about to say thank you, but he had already released his hands.
“Check around the basement for cracks.”
Lu Qingyuan said, opening the basement door and going up to check. The first floor had largely collapsed. Under his deliberate calculation, the collapsed bricks formed a barrier at the basement entrance.
Basically no problems.
“The basement is fine too, no cracks around.”
Chu Yian walked around with a light, carefully checked, and reported, following him around.
Lu Qingyuan looked back at her. “What are you holding?”
“An air conditioner outdoor unit, of course.”
Didn’t expect that, did he?
When Chu Yian learned that Lu Qingyuan was going to blow up the house, she moved all the air conditioner outdoor units from several rooms into the basement.
Air conditioning + electricity, scarce resources during periods of extreme heat.
She looked at the crumbling ruins around her. “Teacher Lu, find a place to put the air conditioner outdoor unit. Otherwise, in this heat, no one will be able to live in the basement either.”
But an intact air conditioner outdoor unit in a collapsed building was very conspicuous.
Lu Qingyuan looked at her for a moment, as if trying to understand her through her eyes.
A moment later, he took the air conditioner outdoor unit with a blank expression. “I’ll think about it.”
